Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] maint: Include bug-reporting info in --help output.

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 11:47:08AM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> These days, many programs are including a bug-reporting address,
> or better yet, a link to the project web site, at the tail of
> their --help output.  However, we were not very consistent at
> doing so: only qemu-nbd and qemu-qa mentioned anything, with the
> latter pointing to an individual person instead of the project.
> 
> Add a new #define that sets up a uniform string, mentioning both
> bug reporting instructions and overall project details, and which
> a downstream vendor could tweak if they want bugs to go to a
> downstream database.  Then use it in all of our binaries which
> have --help output.
> 
> The canned text intentionally references http:// instead of https://
> because our https website currently causes certificate errors in
> some browsers.  That can be tweaked later once we have resolved the
> web site issued.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> ---
> 
> v2: tweak text to capitalize QEMU and use consistent trailing .
> 
>  include/qemu-common.h | 5 +++++
>  vl.c                  | 4 +++-
>  bsd-user/main.c       | 2 ++
>  linux-user/main.c     | 4 +++-
>  qemu-img.c            | 2 +-
>  qemu-io.c             | 5 +++--
>  qemu-nbd.c            | 2 +-
>  qga/main.c            | 2 +-
>  8 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>


Regards,
Daniel
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